From the exuberant overture you know that the London Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Sir Simon Rattle is going to get into the swing for this recording of Leonard Bernstein’s musical Wonderful Town. Written in 1953, three years before West Side Story, it is a light-hearted show with an effervescent score mixing bluesy, jazzy and popular styles, and witty lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This is a live recording of a concert version (which drops much of the dialogue) which had sold-out performances in December 2017.

The show focusses on two sisters who leave Ohio for the bright lights and broader horizons of New York, where...